Meet My Dedicated Team

Through Northwestern Mutual, I have access to a Network of Specialists. We help each other, share ideas and common values, and leverage each other's talents to help you achieve your personal dream of financial security. Together, we are committed to providing exceptional customer service to all of our clients.

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Candice McKnight

Client Service Manager

Candice grew up in Dierks, AR. She graduated from Texas A&M – Texarkana in 2014 with a bachelor’s in business administration. She is currently based out of Colorado and visits Texas and Arkansas regularly to see family and friends. Candice worked in retail operations for 14 years before making a switch to financial services with Northwestern Mutual in 2020. She started as a financial representative and soon learned that her skillset was more aligned with helping advisors help their clients. She has worked in all capacities of the business including insurance, investments, and planning.

In her free time, you can usually find her in the mountains with her dog, Ollie. 

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Taylor Marie Woolley

Investment Operations Associate

Taylor grew up in Portland, TX (just north of Corpus Christi). After high school, she attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Taylor grew up singing, songwriting, playing guitar and performing, so after graduation, she decided to move to Nashville to further her music career. She spent almost 5 years in the music industry, as well as maintaining a Social Media Marketing career, before moving to East Texas where her now husband was born and raised. They were married in October of 2022, and she now calls Longview, TX “home”.  Taylor decided to make an exciting change and joined Northwestern Mutual in September of 2022. Taylor and Ben welcomed their first child in February of 2024.

In her free time, she enjoys continuing her music career (Taylor Tumlinson), exercising, being anywhere on the water, spending time with her family and close friends, her husband, Ben, son Hudson, and their dog, Hutch.

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Amanda Leigh Player

Insurance Operations Manager

Amanda grew up in Texarkana, TX, where she graduated in 2003 from Pleasant Grove. From there, she attended Henderson State Univeristy on a volleyball scholarship, and several years later earned a masters degree from Lamar Univeristy. After being in the education profession for 12 years, she decided to make a career change and joined Colby's team in June 2019.

Amanda does many things in Colby's office. She leads the insurance department by navingating clients throughout the application  and underwriting process, as well as communicating with Home Office underwriters. She also works as Colby's assistant which includes calendar management and client scheduling. In Colby's office, she is the go to for client services and account maintenace.

In her free time, she enjoys being with her family at their home in Diana, TX. She is usually chasing around her 2 children, Nolan (7) and Macy (4).

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Colby Bryan Dickson

RICP®, WMCP®

Wealth Management Advisor

We specialize in working with knowledgeable individual investors and time-pressed business owners in all life stages and business cycles. Once we define where you are and where you want to be in the future, we explore your comprehensive financial plan. With my professional staff, we will help you select and secure the best suitable choices from the wide array of product and services available.

How Northwestern Mutual helps you live the life you want.

When people feel better about their money, good things happen—they become more confident and feel more secure. For more than 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has helped people achieve the financial flexibility they need to live more and worry less.

Being a mutual company means Northwestern Mutual reports to its clients, not Wall Street. They don't believe in chasing fads or taking undue risk for short-term gains. Instead, they take a long-term approach—both in the way we help people plan to reach their goals, and in the way they do business. This has served their clients (and mine) well through all kinds of economic ups and downs, including wars, recessions, even the recent pandemic.

It's why I'm happy to be part of a company that's in it for the long-haul and prioritizes clients over profit.

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